Zakiyyah Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and a member of the Hill-Top Creative Art Foundation with three published poetry collections and is popularly called the goddess of poetry. She is the President of the Northern Writers Forum (NWF) and a two-time winner of the Nigeria Prize for Teen Author (poetry category) in 2020 and 2021.
Her poetry books are My Book of Poems, Carved, Winters and Summers. Zakiyyah has won prizes like the Splendors of Dawn Poetry Contest in December 2019 and the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest in April 2021 Edition.
She has her works published in national and international journals. These include Upwrite Nigeria, Artmosterrific Chapbook, Nigeria Review, INNSAEI Journal, Konya Shamrumi, Literature Voices, Book o Clock, Corona Blues, Poetry Tuesday, Heartlinks Magazine, Paradise on Earth International Anthology, Piam. Voices, Kalahari Review, Melbourne Culture Corner, Olney Magazine, Rigorous, The Account, Mixed Magazine, Beatnik Cowboy, Spillwords, Sledgehammer, the Dillydoun Review, and Tilted House, among others. She is a curator of the Poet’s Talk Series for Konya Shamsrumi. Similarly, she curates the interview section of the NWF Journal, interviewing young writers in Nigeria.
